Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers. You can’t stand them and they’re unavoidable. You try so hard not to be spoiled about certain events, certain movies or even certain games and yet there goes somebody ruining the story for you. Some people think it’s no big deal if you’ve been spoiled while others think that spoilers ruin the fun of not knowing.

There has been a study done on people being spoiled by a story compared to those who didn’t. As it turned out, people who were spoiled about a story were more inclined to enjoy the story more than the people who didn’t. That should tell us that we shouldn’t be worried about stories, but unfortunately, there are still many of us who don’t like when spoilers happen. To be honest, I’m one of them.

When I watch a TV show, I don’t want to be spoiled by any mention of a show or anything. When this past season of The Biggest Loser happened, I was spoiler free until the season finale. I forgot why I didn’t watch the season finale, but I had it on DVR. Before I could watch the show, I was on TV Guide’s website and they had a link that said something along the lines of The Biggest Loser winner. I highlighted the link thinking it wouldn’t spoil me, but the title of the webpage spoiled everything for me; I was furious when TV Guide did that. That totally ruined the suspense and I was left with wanting to know who won the at-home prize.

Now what if TV Guide had gotten fined or shut down because of that spoiler? What would’ve happened if posting spoilers became a felony? What if by posting spoilers you was arrested and charged for it? That could be very interesting!

In the interest of fairness, let’s just say that it’s not posting spoilers that becomes a felony, but not mentioning that a spoiler is coming up is a felony. What would happen to those who fail to warn their viewers, readers or whomever that what’s about to be mentioned next will contain spoilers? Then we might have a problem!

First off, what should the statute of limitations be when it’s okay to spoil without warning? We typically go with a year or so before it’s okay to spoil things, but what if that became a law? You have one year to either warn about a spoiler coming up or not spoil anything at all; if you don’t exercise those rights, you will be persecuted! That might take things too far!

Let’s look at another example: an example that goes to Siphen.0’s territory which is comics. In the comic book Batman Incorporated #8, at the end of the issue, we’ve found out that Damian Wayne had died by the hands of The Heretic after being impaled by a sword.

Okay, that’s it Percy! You’re under arrest for spoiling a story that hasn’t been a year old yet! Turn around and put your hands behind your head right now!

But officer! That law hadn’t pa-

SHUT THE FUCK UP!! YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT!! ANYTHING YOU SAY CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU IN THE COURT OF LAW!!

Sorry for the over exaggeration there, but that’s a little example of what could happen had spoiling a story without warning can get you in jail. But anyway, after knowing about that little unfortunate incident, here’s the kicker: the ending was spoiled before the issue was even released. You would think that it was a hacker or somebody who secretly had access to the story who spoiled it, but that wasn’t the case at all; it was Grant Morrison, the writer of the issue, who gave the ending away!

Let’s say that there are no exceptions to this law: even the author of the story can’t spoil their own stories away unless they get arrested for it. What would happen to that story? Would it be required by law to change the ending because of the spoiler? Will the story be delayed because of a crime that was committed to the story? That’s what’s interesting about the spoiler rule!

Of course, if the spoiler bill became a law, it would piss off a lot of people. Hell, there’s a chance that the bill wouldn’t become a law because of a lot of petitions being made to not turn the bill into law. The only way the bill would turn into a law is if nobody brings up the fact that Congress is proposing the Spoiler Act bill. There may have been instances where the public didn’t know about a bill being turned into law (like the Copyright Alert System), but we have problems trusting the government anyway, so a little secret wouldn’t hurt.

It’s bad enough how our prison system is like and it’s even worse that our country seems to care more about prisons than our education. If the Spoiler Act was to be put in place, you can expect more people to go to prison. But how would anybody know that you spoiled something to someone? Well, physically spoiling things would mean nothing if there are no witnesses, but if there’s a witness or video evidence of somebody spoiling something, then that can put somebody in trouble.

Now let’s look at the main reason why this bill could be proposed: the internet. Let’s face it: you’re more likely to be spoiled by the internet than your friends. If somebody posted a spoiler without warning, the evidence would be right there for everybody to see and that person would be in trouble. Next thing you know, that person’s fanbase would probably riot demanding that person to be free; it’d be like post Rodney King all over again.

Here’s another scenario: what if you were to be fined for posting spoilers without warning? The price to pay would be ridiculous. It could be a couple or a few hundred bucks or it could be thousands of dollars just to discourage anybody to not warn anybody about the spoilers. I don’t know which scenario would happen, but it doesn’t matter: there’s no way this thing can happen!

It’s true that many of us don’t like to be spoiled, but I don’t think we take spoilers that seriously. I don’t think we want the person who spoils something for us to be punished for it. Mostly it’s our fault for either looking for it or being in a situation where we can’t avoid them, but it’s not that much of an inconvenience. I don’t like being spoiled over things and yes I can get upset about being spoiled, but I’ve tried to practice forgetting spoilers and sometimes I do forget about them.

Making spoilers without warning a crime would be ridiculous. There are far more problems in our country that should make spoilers a non-issue. If this thing were to happen, then it’ll show how much our country has gotten downhill. Who’d want to get involved with politics after that? Then again, it might cause some people to study politics more just to undo what those before us got us into. But it is something I’ve been thinking about while I was away from blogging for 40 days.

So what do you guys think about this potential scenario? Sound off in the comments section below!

On August 11, 2012, I had done the one thing I thought I would never, EVER, do in my life: meet Booker T. I had heard that his book From Prison to Promise was coming out and that if people were to meet him at the event, then they would get an early copy of his book, plus get it autographed by Booker T himself and get a picture with him, all for $30. There was one little problem with that though: it was on a Saturday!

In case some of you people have never been to a comic convention before, Saturday’s the biggest day of the event as a lot of people will be there; that probably explains why Saturday’s tickets cost more than any other day. With a long line of people wanting to meet Booker T, I thought that I would never get the chance to meet him. As the days went by, I was shocked to discover a shorter line and a bigger opportunity to take advantage of the situation and I did do so. Now, after reading his book, I felt like I should’ve spent more than $30 for the whole experience.

From Prison to Promise is an autobiography from Booker T that details how his life went back from when he was young all the way to becoming a professional wrestler. He didn’t write the book on his own though; he had a little help from a guy named Andrew William Wright. Andrew William Wright has been involved with writing books pertaining to professional wrestling as he helped Joe Laurinaitis, Sr. (a.k.a. Animal of Legion of Doom) write a book called The Road Warriors: Danger, Death and the Rush of Wrestling and the book was well received by those who have read it. If you enjoyed Joe Laurinaitis’ autobiography, then you’ll enjoy reading this one too.

Well before I had read Booker T’s From Prison to Promise, I had stumbled upon a website called The Smoking Gun and that website is best known for containing mugshots of every celebrity or other famous people who’ve been arrested before. As I scrolled down through the list of celebrities, the one name I was shocked to see (besides Bill Gates) was Booker T. When I took a look at his profile, I was relieved to find out that he had been arrested prior to being a wrestler, so that was cool. What wasn’t cool though was the mugshot he took; he looked like a buffoon. Oh, and don’t worry: you’ll see that same mugshot a page before Chapter 1, so have a good laugh!

Booker T was the youngest child of the Huffman family and he pretty much had been a problem child until he went to prison. Reading how he was growing up reminded me a whole lot of my mother’s youngest brother (one of my uncles obviously) who’s been pretty much a problem child himself. Unlike Booker T, my grandmother never disciplined him like she did her other children, so he ended up getting himself into trouble a lot. He’s been in and out of prison as far as I can remember and when I looked up his profile on some website, I found out that he’s been in and out of prison since before I was even born. In case you want to know, yes, he’s currently in prison as we speak.

I have (or rather had) another uncle, but he was on my father’s side of the family. I know he was raised right, but like my mother’s brother, he had been in and out of prison pretty much as far as I can remember. The day after W2C3 was over, on my birthday, my father called me while I was watching Monday Night Raw and he told me that my uncle was going to be released from prison that day. I joked with him and said I wonder if he’s going to stay out of prison forever this time?

You see, every time my uncle went to prison and got out, it wouldn’t even take 3 months before he would go back in; the same with my other uncle. Well, apparently karma must’ve wanted to out-joke me, so a few days later, on Friday, my father calls me around 9:40 A.M. and told me that my uncle had died. YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS!! I didn’t mean forever literally like that! I swear, I couldn’t have made this story up even if I wanted to. I’ll keep my mouth shut once my other uncle gets out of prison. Now I’ve gotten off-topic. I’ll do it again somewhat!

Reading Booker T’s autobiography, I also couldn’t help but notice that his life path pretty much mirrors Judge Mathis’. Like Booker T, Judge Mathis was the youngest child of his family. Like Booker T, Judge Mathis was a problem child. Unlike Booker T, Judge Mathis was in and out of jail a lot, most of the time with his mother sending him there herself. But, like Booker T, Judge Mathis lost his mother, but that was only after he was beginning to get his life together; Booker T’s life went downhill right after his mother died.

Booker T was actually named after his father, so Booker T is actually a junior. Unfortunately, Booker T was only 10 months old when his father died of a stroke. Since Booker T pretty much didn’t have a father figure in his life, he never understood what it took to be a man, so he learned from the streets. The book is over 200 pages, but it’s very easy to read, so you don’t have to worry about it. It was so captivating for me, every time I got to a new chapter, I would have to force myself into stop reading the book because it was that damn good.

After reading about how he lost his mother, it made me so happy to not have to go through what he went through as my mother is still alive to this day. I haven’t lost my father, but ever since his mother had a stroke back in 1999 (who has since died back in 2005), he’s been in and out of my life too, so I had to learn from other people how to be a man; I’m actually surprised that I didn’t get into any trouble or anything. Maybe it was because I’m the oldest sibling in my family, so I had no choice but to man up the best way I could. I don’t know, but I’m glad to see how Booker T overcame a huge obstacle and be where he is right now; he should definitely be in the Hall of Fame when the opportunity comes.

If there’s one thing that I didn’t like about this book, it’s the fact that it doesn’t end with him being the GM of WWE Friday Night Smackdown!, but rather his beginning with WCW. What that means is we won’t get to read how the whole Hulk Hogan! We Comin’ For You N*GGA! botch happened, but that can be expected in the sequel of his book titled…whatever it’ll be called. For now though, I’m glad I got the opportunity to read the book.

If I was to rate this book in stars, I’d give it 5 stars, 5 stars, 5 stars, 5 stars, 5 stars to the 5 time, 5 time, 5 time, 5 time, 5 time WCW Heavyweight champion. If you’re a Booker T fan or a wrestling fan, then you need to do yourself a favor and pick up From Prison to Promise! I can guarantee you that you will not be disappointed!